Commemorating Thomas A. Knight (1758–1838), pomologist and past president of the Horticultural Society of London.

Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, leathery, entire or toothed. Flowers bisexual in dense clusters, each 4-parted on a paired stalk. Perianth segments curling spirally. Stamens 4, attached above the middle, with short filaments and long anthers. Ovary superior, with 1 chamber and 4 ovules. Fruit a leathery follicle containing winged seeds.

3 species, 1 from New Zealand, 2 from New Caledonia.

Seed.

Tree; flowers reddish brown; hypogynous glands 4; fruit a follicle.

Source: Spencer, R.; Molyneux, B.; Mathews, D. (2002). Proteaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.